Project Zero Blog

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This video provides a brief introduction to the Zero Resource Model and illustrates how quickly you can get up and running with RESTful data. The tutorial is located in the IBM WebSphere sMash DE developer’s guide.
- Brandon
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Google Charts is a neat service that lets developers generate charts and graphs using a simple HTTP GET request. Because all of its features have been made available through HTTP, this service can be easily integrated into Web applications built with Project Zero. This article gives you a demonstration of Groovy scripts that let you [...]

A few weeks ago, I presented “Ajax RESTs with Project Zero” at the AjaxWorld Conference. Thanks to the team’s encouragement, I am gathering some of my thoughts about the Ajax industry (activities) in this blog entry, for what we should focus on as Project Zero matures.The conference was mostly client-oriented technologies (well, it is Ajax). [...]

There is a new space for Project Zero on developerWorks. This space is complementary to projectzero.org and provides lots of information on Web 2.0, AJAX, and other related technologies. A great way to quickly find developerWorks content related to Project Zero. You can find the space at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/spaces/zero. – Jason

I am here at Javapolis in Antwerp… very good conference. Seems to be about 3000 people here. In about 3 hours I am going to present an overview of Project Zero. There are lots of sessions here on complementary technology, including AJAX and Flex and the state of the Java world in general. I saw [...]

The Zero team, like much of our industry today, is excited about SOA. The Zero platform uses a style of Service-Oriented Architecture that folks are starting to refer to as Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA). WOA is a simple instantiation of SOA that uses “the Web” as the SOA platform.

Dion Hinchcliffe’s blog on zdnet.com accurately [...]

Radical Simplification… Web Applications… Web 2.0… REST… AJAX… Scripting… less painful development
Project Zero is a new project from IBM that is looking at a new platform for building web applications that is optimized for simplicity and ease of development. Zero enables you to build web applications, specifically RESTful Web 2.0 style web application, quickly. [...]

“80/20 equals Zero” – While the math might not make sense, I think you will agree Zero does.
Project Zero is all about simplicity. Radical Simplicity is how we like to describe it. We’ve been influenced by John Maeda’s (MIT Media Lab), Laws of Simplicity; specifically his first 3 Laws: Reduce, Organize, and Time. Reduce: [...]